ABA Therapy in Hopkins, Minnesota
Hopkins is small, close, and easy to serve well: our Golden Valley center sits about fifteen minutes away via Highway 7 and Highway 100, and in-home ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) reaches every Hopkins address. Your child's program runs in whichever single setting you choose.
- Drive to our center
- ~15 min
- County
- Hennepin County
- School district
- Hopkins 270
Not every ABA provider in Minnesota accepts Medical Assistance. We do.
Ability Avenues accepts Straight MA and Blue Plus, and we're enrolled in EIDBI (Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention) — the Minnesota benefit that funds autism therapy for eligible children. Most families we serve pay $0 out of pocket.
Center-based or in-home in Hopkins?
Hopkins families usually frame the choice in terms of Mainstreet-scale logistics: the center is a quarter-hour away and pairs neatly with a workday, while in-home means the therapist comes to you and the week stays put.
Clinically, the settings are twins — same assessment, same goals process, same BCBA supervision. What differs is where your child practices: a built-for-it room in Golden Valley, or the hallway, kitchen, and backyard where the skills will actually get used.
It's always one or the other, never both in parallel. And if your first choice wears out its welcome, we move the program across completely — switching is normal; splitting is never on offer.
One child, one setting: your child's program runs in the one you choose — and if it stops fitting, you and your BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) can switch, never split.
Getting to our center from Hopkins
Highway 7 east out of Hopkins meets Highway 100 in St. Louis Park; ride 100 north past I-394 to the Duluth Street exit and you're on our frontage road, Lilac Drive North. Call it fifteen minutes door to door.
Excelsior Boulevard east to 100 north runs the same trip with more stoplights and better coffee options.
- Typical drive
- ~15 min
- Main route
- Hwy 7 east to Hwy 100 north, exit at Duluth Street
- Where you're headed
- 1415 Lilac Dr N, Suite 140, Golden Valley, MN 55422
Do you serve all of Hopkins?
All of Hopkins — easily. The city is barely four square miles, and our in-home team covers every one of them, from the Mainstreet blocks to the neighborhoods off Blake Road.
Every Hopkins address is equally welcome at the center; at this distance the choice between settings is genuinely about your child, not the map.
Ability Avenues supports families whose children attend Hopkins Public Schools (District 270) and can coordinate with your child's IEP (Individualized Education Program) team.
Hopkins questions, answered
The things Hopkins families ask us most — coverage, the drive, and how starting actually works.
How do Hopkins families usually get to your center?
Highway 7 east to Highway 100 north, off at Duluth Street — about fifteen minutes. Excelsior Boulevard works too if you'd rather skip the highway merge.
Is Hopkins fully covered for in-home sessions?
Completely — Hopkins is one of the smallest cities we serve, and every address in it is inside our in-home area. Scheduling here is flexible for the same reason.
Can our child split the week between your center and home?
No — that's the one thing we won't do, because consistent teaching is what makes intensive ABA work. You choose one setting; if it needs to change, you and your BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) move the whole program.
We're a District 270 family. How does school coordination work?
With your permission, we coordinate directly with your child's IEP team at Hopkins Public Schools — sharing goals and progress so school and therapy reinforce each other instead of duplicating effort.
Near Hopkins, too
Hopkins borders three communities we serve — each linked page speaks for its own city.
See everywhere we serveAsk about availability in Hopkins
From Hopkins, answers are one short call away: availability, the Highway 7 run versus in-home, and what EIDBI already covers for your child.